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fjOME EDITION VOLUME XIX. No. 99. REFUGEES BOARD U.S. WARSHIPS x x x & x Have Aiihi Affidavit For “Dago Frank” Winter Lingers in Spring's Lap FLURRIES OF SNOW IN SOUTH Predict Heavv Frosts As Far As Florida Toniqht. Warmer Friday. With Fruit Trees in Bloom. Wintry Weather Re turns Washington, D. C With cold weather prevailing generally east of the ItocKy Mountains, spring stumbled upon the heels of slowly departing winter today. Snow fell last night at several points in the Interior of the South Atlantic states and temperatures dropped to freezing in the north portion of the gulf states. Heavy frosts or freezing tempera-ures are predicted in the south as far as northern Florida tonight. Warmer weather for Friday is predicted In the eastern section of the country, except on the Atlantic coast. Snow Flurries. Greenville, S. C.—With the tempera ture close to freezing, a light flurry of snow fell here early today. Truckers Fearful. Norfolk, Va.—With fruit trees in bloom, there was a return today of win ter weather. Growers of early truck as well as fruit are fearful of the unusual conditions, but no material damage has been done as yet. Flakes Melt. Richmond, Va.—Snow fell here this morning for the first time in April since April 26. 1898. The flakes were large, melting as they fell. The weather bureau forecasts con tinued wintry conditions for tonight and tomorrow. Great Oamage Expected. Asheville, N. C. —The cold snap here is expected to kill or greatly damage fruit. Coldest In 15 Years. Columbus, Ga. —The thermometer reg istered 44 here this morning, showing the coldest April weather in fifteen (Continued on Next Page.) MOB BOLDS UP IISPIJMII? Strike Assumes Serious Phase. Regular Train From St Clair Alleged to Have Been De tained. Savannah, Ga.— Mr. R. R Morgan, general manager of the Savannah & INorthweatern Route —better known as the Brinson Railway, appealed to Postmaster Marion Lucas this morn ing for advice on how to e<t a mail train out of St. Clair, Ga., ro Savan nah There is a strike of conductors on the Brinson road and Mr. Morgan told the postmaster he understood a mob had prevented the departure ol the train. U. S. Marshal. Mr. Lucas advised Mr Morgan to get in communication with the United States marshal's office. Telephone advices from St. Clair state that there has been no disorder but that tho train due to leave at 6 o'clock this morning had not del arted up to noon. The Brinson Railway officials suc ceeded, it is understood, In getting a man to bring the train out as con ductor, but about the time he was to (T train of the Georgia and Florida Railway came up and the crew Induced the subsaitute conductor to abandon his post and not start the train out. , ~ Says Crew Intimidated. The telephone messages from St. Clair sav there Is no trouble expect ed that' all efforts toward getting some one to take the train out of town as a conductor have failed Mr Morgan says the sheriff of Burke County had agreed to go to St. Clair for the purpose of restoring or der and trving to get the train out Mr Morgan Insists that his crew was Intimidated by men armed with guns end revolvers this morning at St Clair. DR. CHAMBERLAIN DEAD. Worcester. Mats.— Dr. Atexa: <er F Chamberlain. professor of anthrop ology since 1886 at Clark University, died here today. "THF ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES—THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES ====== THE AUGUSTA HERALD Shot Dead in Argument Over Votes For Women Chicago.— As the sequel to an argu ment over women’s suffrage a well dressed man believed to me Wm. Woods, of San Francisco, was shot dead and Jameß Franche, alias "Dlffy the Goat,” Is sought by the police on a murder charge. A young woman also is wanted in connection with the tragedy. Woods, Franche and the woman were said to have been drinking to gether in a case last, night when an argument over equal suffrage arose. The Californian contended that yo men had the right to vote. Accord ing to the story told the police Franche took exception to the west erner's remarks and shot him. Woods right name was Isaac Hena gow, hut he was known in sporting circles as Wm. Wood. He formerly was sparring partner for a pugilist known as “Kid Farmer.” Underwood Leaves For Washington Saturday Orlando, Fla. —-Senator-Elect Under wood of Alabama, will leave here Sat urday for Washington, as his father in-law, J. H. Woodward, is much im proved in health and the doctors sav he will soon recover Mr. Underwood was the recipient of an informal re ception here in which practically the entire population took part. He de clined to discuss the status of the Mexican war or the free tolls vote. Omaha Kicks on Being in Kansas City District Omaha, Neb, —Officers of national banks of Omaha today drew up a pro test to be sent to the Secretary of the Treasury objecting to the placing of Omaha in the Kansas City district of the reserve banking system. The pro test asks that if Omaha may not have a regional bank of its own, it be thrown into the Chicago district as the trend of its business is In that direction. No Improvement in the Condition ex-Gov. Draper Greenville, S. C. —Physicians attend ing Kben 8. Draper, former governor of Massachusetts, in a critical condi tion here from paralysis, this after noon issued the following bulletin: "Ex-Governor Draper since his para lytic stroke on April 7 has shown no improvement. His condition is less favorable than yesterday.” Militant Smashes Ten Cases in British Museum London. —A militant suffragette to day smashed with a hatchet ten cases containing exhibits in the Asiatic sec tion of the British Museum. Beyond breaking a few specimens of valuable porcelain, however, she did little damage except to the glass cases. The woman was arrested. TWO KILLED; THIRTY INJURED Toronto, Ont. —Two laborers were | killed and thirty injured last night by I the fall of a sixty-foot wall of a I building previously destroyed by fire. Action of State Committee Has Imperiled Right of People of Georgia To Choose Senators Congressman Hardwick Says Object of Seventeenth Amend ment is to Put Election of Senators in Hands of People, and State Convention’s Ruling Gives Opportunity For Much Political Log-Rolling. Washington, D. C. — Cungressmaii Thomss W. Hnrdwlck. who Is t> candi date for the short-term Un'ted States senatorship from Georgia, toduv gav< out a statement scoring the rules adopt ed by the state executive committee to govern the nomination of United States senators. He asserts that tho action of the committee Is astonishing and Inde fensible. ■‘The plan is unjust to the people of Georgia," he declares, “and will In ail probability Imperil the!r right te choose their senators at the ballot bex, and transfer the real choice to a curi ously constituted convention, where aw sorts of log rolling, trading and comb ing will hold high carnival." The congressman asserts that no can didate for the United fitufes senate in Ge-vgla has ever been nominated ny the county unit' plan, or onvent o:i system. He calls attention to the fact AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. THURSDAY AFTERNOON. APRIL 9. 1914. CONFESSION RY ONE OF GUNMEN? Rumors That “Gvo the Blood" Will Tell of Part He Played in Murder. No Delay in Execu tions For Monday Morninq at Sunrise New York.—Tliere were ptvslstent rumors today to the effect that at least one of the four gunmen who are to die at Sing Sing Monday morning lor the part they played in the murder of Herman Hosenthal, the gambler, would confess. The rumors could not he traced to their source. Joseph A. Shay, counsel for Chas. Becker, the former police lieutenant convicted of instigating the murder but saved by higher court ruling, said he might go to the prison some time and endeavor to get statements from the four men to he used by the defense at the second trial of Becker. For Depositions. In case the condemned men decline to make statements to him he lias lTe pared an application to the supreme court for an order requiring the ap pointment of a commission to take their depositions. In either event It was said the execution of the sentence wauti not he delayed. Although Governor Glynn hue twice refused to grant a reprieve, the fam ilies of the gunmen and theft- counsel, Chas. G. F. Wahle, had not given up all hope today. Every ihteans Known to the law will tie employed from now until Monday, Wahle declared. Argument In Answer. Today he will send a memorandum to Governor Glynn on the latter's re fusal to grant a replleve. The memoran dum will take the form of an argument in answer to the governor's reasons for his refusal. Wahle had at first intended to go to Albany today to make a per sonal plea to Governor Glynn, but when the delegation of rabbis failed yester day to move the governor to reconsid ering his decision, Wahle determined that the Interests of ills clients would best be served by forwarding the mem orandum by special messenger. Humors regarding the expected con fession had it that the one gunman most likely to talk was “Gyp the Blood" Horowitz. Alibi Affidavit. An alibi afidavit for “Dago Frank' Cirofici, the existence of which was rumored yesterday, will be sent to the governor with Wahle’s memorandum. The affidavit is signed by Frederick Reo, a special officer in a Harlem darce hall. Reo says that on the night Rosenthal was killed he took a note from a woman who had been arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct to the home of “Dago Frank,” and met "Dago Frank” there. At 1:55 A. M. It was then 1:55 o’clock In the morning, about the time Rosenthal was murdered. The memorandum also calls to the governor's attention the fact that ten of the twelve Jurors who convicted the gunmen expressed themselves In favor of a reprieve. FIRE-BRAND CAMPAIGN, Belfast. Ireland. —Suffragettes con tinued their fire-brand campaign In Ul ster today by burning Orlands, an old mansion near Carrlckfergus, on Belfast Dough. that Speaker Crisp was nominated by the popular vote of the entire state 111 1896: that Senator Clay was thus nomi nated In 1902 and 1908; that Senalor Bacon's nominations were won in th'S way in 1900, 1906 and 1912. "Why are the unbroken precedents of eighteen years thrown to the winds, without compunction or hesitation?” he asks. The statement follows: "The action of the state committee In providing a convention plan for the nomination of United States senator from Georgia is both astonishing and indefensible. To adopt such a plan not only violates every precedent of the past, but Is, In my Judgment, a back ward and reactionary step of the most pronounced character. More than that, it is most unjust to the people cf (Continued on Next Page.) Mystery Surrounds the Identity Dead Stranger Charleston, S. C. —Mystery still aur sounds the Identity of an elderly stranger, whose body was found In a partial state of decomposition after apparent suicide by hanging In an un occupied building, formerly a wcil known tourist inn here. The only clue Is a label In his hat marked Jer sey City. The name of Scherzer, Mor ristown, was found on a card in a pocket. The inquest will he held to day. Warrants Issued For the Arrest Siegel and Vogel New York. Bench warrants for tbs arrest of Henry Hiegel and -Y.nk E. Vogel, heads of the bankrupt Siegel en terprises, were issued today when Siegel and Vogel failed to appear in court to plead to Indictments charging grand larceny and violation of the stale bank ing laws. In signing the warrants Judge Mulqueen said he would see to it that, if necessary, the pair were placed In the Tombs. The two defendants appeared In court shortly after and entered a plea of not guilty. They were given a week to change their pleas. Hobson 45,514 With Underwood 76,285 in Ala. Birmingham, Ala —With scattering precincts from six counties stll miss ing, an unofficial compilation today of the vote at Monday's democratic primary throughout Albania indicated that Oscar W. Underwood* majority over Richmond Pearson Hobson for nomination to the United States sen ate would reach 30,000. The count as reported today was: Underwood 76,285; Hobson 45,514. No changes were indicated today In the relative vote for candidates for other offices. Returns from the offi cial canvass tomorrow will be neces sary before the completed vote can be given. Illinois Women Want Full Voting Rights Now Chicago, lll.—Declaring that women demonstrated their desire to vote at Tuesday’s township elections, Illinois woman suffrage leaders today began a movement for full voting rights. Tins could be obtained only through a change in the state's constitution. Under the equal suffrage act women cannot vote for state officials, legisla tors, congressmen or other constitu tional officers. The law granted them the vote on questions of public policy and for president and city officers pro vided for by statute. PIERRE SALES DEAD. Paris. Pierre Bales, one of the most popular French authorities of stories of romance and adventure, died hero today, aged 60. He wns originally a bank clerk, then a Journalist nnd af terward a writer of novels of peculiar ly Parisian setting. Furbelows and Flounces Fashion decrees the returning to favor of the separate skirt and the making of the skirt a thing of furbelows, frills, and flounces. The stores —those “fashion Indi cators"—are already showing the new style notes and telling about them in their advertisements. It used to be that the news col umns of the newspapers made the fashion announcements first; but nowadays the stores are so alert and so anxious to be first In these announcements that much of the latest fashion news is In the ad vertising columns. Any person who wishes to keep up-to-the-minute on the new fash ions must be a reader of the ad vertising In The Herald. The advertising columns are the mirrors that reflect the attrac tions of the merchants and manu facturers. These men live by service. They must make their advertis ing timely and Interesting Just as they make their merrhnndlse de sirable and fair In price. The news of the frills and fur belows Is only one side of adver tising. Read the advertising and keep informed. Returned To His Old Winter Home , Augusta , Today St ** ''"-rl'' IKEtHy LATEST PHOTO OF EX PRESIDENT WM. H. TAFT MR. TAFT AND WIFE AT THE BON AIR Former President and Wife, Both Lookina Well, Arrived in Auqusta Shortly After Noon. Both Deliqhted at Pros pect of Week’s Stay HEARTY GREETING FOR POSTWASTER MURPHY Has “Nothing to Say” to Rep resentative of the Press at Present. Mind Intent on Golf Game For This Afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Taft arrived, as per schedule, on the .Southern train No. 131, due at 12:01, hut which waa for unacountahle reason twenty minutes late Owing to the fact that the time of thlr arrival was kept out of the pa pers beforehand, only a small crowd of a hundred or so people were at the station. Tilts was done by request, ho eauae always heretofore ttie crowd has been so large that, though It was complimentary, it was also Inconven ient. To the Bon Air. Mr. and Mrs. Landon Thomas met the train and took the distinguished arrivals out to the Hon Air. Postmas ter Murphy wsh also on the plulform, and one solitary representative of the press, slightly trembling at the knees, but outwardly ealm. After greeting Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, the ex-president turned to Mr Morphy. "Hello! Murphy, old hoy! Is your head still on?" tNo political refer ence) And he shook him by the shoulders. The great man then spotted the press representative, probably by Ids look of Intense anxiety, and, antici pating all question of Interviews, said cordially: "Ah! I'rn delighted to lie bark, sir, delighted to lie down here again. If you want to interview me, though, I have nothing to say.” "He’ll have even less to say," said Mr. Thomas, "when I get through beating him out on the golf links this afternoon.” The Taft Laugh. Mr. Taft laughed heartily at this, and replied that they were taking ad vantage of him, for they were in train ing and he was not. "Anyhow," he said later, as they were getting Into the motor, "you come up and see me, and If I think of anything to say. I’ll tell you. But I didn’t coine down here to lie inter viewed for the papers, I came to rest —and get beaten playing golf. But the latter has yet to lie proven!’’ he said, with a sidewise look at his ad versary-to-be. Looking Well. Both he and Mrs. Taft looked ex ceedingly well. They seemed not at all tired out by the Journey, and In excellent spirits. Mr. Taft’s famous laugh sounded more rare-free, If any thing, and more genial than in the days when he was weighed down with the burden of the Big Office, $6.00 PER YEAR—S CENTS PER COPY. BERCKMANSSAYS NO DANGER HERE No Likelihood of Injurious Frost to This Section Tonight, Declares Fruit Expert. "There Is no danger of an Injurl ’ons frost In tills section," shiled Mr. 1,, A. Bcrckmans, of the Frultland Nurseries, thiH morning, when asked by The Herald regarding the danger to fruit trees In tills vielnlty result ing from the low temperature offi cially predicted for tonight. Throughout the day Thursday tha skies were cloudy and If the state of the weather remains the same tonight, according to Mr. Ilerekmans. there will be absolutely no chance of the fruit In tills section being hurt. On the Frultland Nurseries, near Augusta, smudges are all ready to be lighted without the slightest delay. This precaution Is also taken at the Berckmans’ large plantation at May field, (la., where there are thousands of the finest peach trees, Mr. I\ J. A. Berckmans was In Mayfield this morning but was expected to return to Augusta tills afternoon, leaving the orchards In the cure of competent su perintendents. The official forecast Issued this morning by Forecaster K. D. Einlgh Indicates fair weather with a tem perature tonight near freezing. Mr. Kmlgli states that there Is a possi bility of the temperature not going ns low as predicted, In Which event It would tie held off by the mountains west of here. The temperature Ht 11:30 a. in. today registered 54 de grees, having slowly risen from the 40 mark at 8 a. m., the lowest record ed In several days. This morning's minimum temperature was 16 degrees under that of yesterday. The forecast warns that there may he trust If there arc no clouds and no wind. Hundreds Killed Today By Bandit "White Wolf" Peking.—Brigands under the notori ous “White Wolf” today killed hun dreds of Inhabitants of the towns ol Huh Hlen, Chow Ohlh, and Melhslen, in the vicinity of Hlan-Fu, capital o Hheri 81 province. They looted the three towns sfter capturing them and are sweeping the entire country round about. All foreigners residing at oyt-sta tions have been ordered to Blan-Fu. SECRETARY BRYAN AT DESK Washington.—S-eretary Bryan, who haH been kept Indoors for a weelf, by n hard cold, returnod today to his desk at the state department. |JOME EDITION ADMIT VILLA WAS VICTOR; TAMPICO OIL PLANTS BURN Mexico Citv Calls Evacuation of Torreon a “Strategic Move.” Grave Fears For Prooertv at Tampico. Re fuqees on U. S. Warships. Brvan on Spanish Exiles Mexico City. —The proposed censor ship today was said to lie due to the ''campaign of lies" being waged against the government and to protect the movements of the federal military forces. Gave the News. Washington. Secretary ilrjan said that Consular Agent ('Brothers was under instructions to etntinue his rep resentations to General Carranza for the protection of property which re fugees left In Torreon and to obtain, is isjsslhle, permission lor the Span iards to return to their homes. First Admission. Mexico City.—The flrsi admission that General Villa and the rebel army have occupied Torreon Is made by the Mexican Herald today. The newspaper slides that General Aurellano Ulanquet declared that Gen. Jose Refugio Velasco, the Fed oral commander, has not evacuated the city "In the full sense of the word.” The minister of war saya the Fed eral commander has made a stategtc move which Is expected to give the best results on the arrival of the Fed eral columns now on their way to Torreon. Cable Censorship According to General Ulanquet. a position has been established by Gen eral Velasco at Cerro Up Da Cruz, from which place he dominates Tor reon with his artillery. The government announced this morning through the newspapers its intention <>r instituting a censorship on entile dispatches. • Grave Danger. Washington.—State department of ficials said today foreign properties, especially the oil plants In Tampico were in grave danger but. there was I thought to he little danger to lives ol (Continued on next page.) ALASKA WOMEN WON AT POLES Supplied Cigars and Lunches at Voting Bo< ths. Victors in Bitter Juneau Contest. Beattle. Women helped decide elec tions In Alaska this week, according to dispatches received today. It was tho first time women hsd voted In Alaska ■lnn' enfranchised by the first terri torial legislature a year ago. In Hkagway campaigning brought victory to the feminine politicians Electors were taken to polling places by women, who bought cigars and luncheons and supplied conveyances while explaining simple ballots. They elected ttie entire non-partisan ticket against the tax puyers faction which had been in power six years. In a bitter municipal fight. In Juneau women were active and the citizens' party was able to elect only two al dermen against the peoples’ party, headed by Fortner Mayor Valentine. CARNEGIE VISITS WHITE HOUSE Applauds Speech From House Gallery Favoring Repeal of Tolls Exemption. Washington. Ardrew Carnegie—an Interested spectator In the house gal lery today, applauded a speech sup porting the Panama tolls exemption repeal bill by Representative Vollmer of lowa, the newest member of the house. Later Mr. Carnegie visited the White House. Mr. Carnegie said his visit to the White House was merely to pay his respects to the president and that he had not discussed politics or pending questions. When asked about the ca nal tolls controversy, he said: "Our country will "be dishonored it we do not uphold the treaty." At the eapltol Mr. Carnegie predict ed the tolls repeal bill would he pass ed by the senate und Jokingly suggest ed that "only prayer will help some of those democrats In the senate the way they are behaving nor/.’’